Our Wedding - Getting Ready

I just realised this morning that I do have some photos from the wedding day that I can share with you.  These are photos that were taken by myself and my bridesmaids while we were getting hair and makeup done.  We spent most of the morning just us girls and my mum while dad ran around getting a shave and organising lunch for us.  We had so much fun with my hair and makeup ladies.  My hair was done by Di from Di's Hair Design and my makeup was done by the lovely Gemma of Embellished Makeup.  I highly recommend both of these ladies for any weddings on the Gold Coast or in Brisbane.

So hopefully these will tide you all over until the professional photos are received. Fingers crossed that is soon because I am dying to see them!

Christmas Crafting

I know everyone is hanging to see wedding photos but unfortunately I don't have any at the moment so in the meantime I thought I would share a Christmas present that I made before the wedding.

This blanket is for Corey's nephew for Christmas.  Luckily I know none of Corey's family read my blog so I am safe posting this.  This was super duper simple to make.  It obviously just a bunch of granny squares joined together.

I made the blanket 7 squares x 5 squares and it is the perfect size for a little baby.  It is made with 8ply wool from Spotlight.  It took 1 ball of dark green, 2 light green and 1 white just in case anyone was wondering.  This was super duper simple to make which made it the perfect thing to get my mind off wedding stress in those last few weeks.  I have 2 more presents I want to make for Christmas so I better get cracking on those. Only 4 more weeks!!!

Strawberry Milkshake Cake

When we were in Airlie Beach I asked Corey what cake he wanted me to make for his birthday.  The conversation when like this.

Me: What type of cake do you want for your birthday?
Corey: Strawberry milkshake!
Me: Ummm, strawberry milkshake flavoured or shaped like?
Corey: Shaped like.
Me: Okay. Just a 2D one.
Corey: No, 3D.
Me: Oh....okay.

What the??? I had no idea where to start. I googled it and I couldn't find any cakes shaped like a milkshake, strawberry or otherwise.  So I had to get the old brain moving on this one.  I decided to use my Wilton 3D cupcake pan and I made 2 bases and 1 top.  I sliced the bases into 3 pieces and layered the two bases together then added the top.

I iced it in a buttercream icing that I flavoured using strawberry ice cream topping.  I had to add in a little pink colouring to get the nice pink colour.  Then I topped it with white buttercream icing, some sprinkles, a wafer biscuit and a cherry.

I must say I am not entirely happy with how this cake turned out but Corey loved it. It is a bit too messy for my liking.  It is so stinking hot here at the moment that making icing is not the easiest thing in the world. I liked the top part but then I ran into the side of it when I was smoothing out the bottom and mushed it so now it looks a bit messy.  But I must say it tasted great!!!

I am just happy that Corey liked it! You would never guess that this giant pink cake is for a guy that just turned 25.  I can't wait to see what he requests next year!

Happy Birthday Corey!!!

Happy Birthday to my most wonderful, sexy husband. Your a quarter of a century now. Go you! Hope you have an amazing day even though you have to work. I will be keeping my fingers crossed for you that it rains so you can come home early. I love you more than anything in the whole wide world and I hope that you have the most amazing birthday ever. Love you xoxoxo

Our Honeymoon

Since I don't have wedding photos to share yet and I don't envisage having them for a couple of weeks I thought I would start with showing you our honeymoon first.  We had a week off after the wedding and headed north to Airlie Beach.  We stayed in a gorgeous resort and had a very nice relaxing time.  We basically did nothing for a week but swim, shop and lay about.  We took a couple of trips out to the islands to see Daydream Island and Whitehaven Beach and do some more swimming and relaxing there.  It was lovely!!!  Here are some shots from the week....

It is so hard being back at work!!! I feel like I left my brain on the beach somewhere.  I better go back and have a look for it :)  Now that I am back I am getting pretty excited for Christmas. I have a couple of Christmas presents I am hoping to make and 1 I have already made.  As soon as I take some pictures I will share it here.

Mr & Mrs

Hi guys!!! We arrived home last night from an amazing week in Airlie Beach for our honeymoon.  I can't wait to get out wedding photos back to be able to show you.  It was such an amazing day and we had so much fun. I can't wait to see the pics.  Until then here is one taken by one of our friends.  Hopefully there will be more pics to come real soon.

My Hens Weekend - Part 2

So day 2 of my hen's weekend involved a lovely afternoon at my parents house having afternoon tea with all my girls.  My sister, mum and Mahnee slaved away in the kitchen all morning making some delicious treats for us all to enjoy.  It was an awesome afternoon and really nice to get the girls together and just have a chat.  Here are a few photos from the day....

All in all it was a wonderful weekend and I was so happy to be able to spend it with all my closest friends and family.  I can't believe the wedding is in 2 more sleeps!!! I am freaking out but I can't wait. It is going to be an amazing day!!!